Pet Peeve Friday

[SaltineQueen]

Let's vent a bit. I'm having trouble readjusting to reality after a wonderful Spring Break and am finding my patience wearing down a little quicker than the school year.

I'll start:

Cell phone voice mail that's either not set up or is full. I don't get people that do this... How are you not accessible when you're away from your kids in case of emergency?

[chacha82, ADN, BSN]

Wear clothing appropriate for school.

Shirts with no straps, dresses with no straps, shorts cut within an inch of their life, tshirts with disgusting slogans on them. No, just no.

[tamarae1]

That it's OK for everyone else to get a lunch break, but I have to eat at my desk with vomit and blood and snot in my trash can and the bathroom in my clinic smelling of vomit and poo because all of the boys who aren't allowed to use the gang restrooms because they get in trouble (because there are no stall doors) have to come use mine, one at a time.

Everyone else gets to have those precious few childless minutes to enjoy a lunch. Why can't I?

[cooties_are_real]

Wear clothing appropriate for school.

Shirts with no straps, dresses with no straps, shorts cut within an inch of their life, tshirts with disgusting slogans on them. No, just no.

Boys with earrings, non-shaven and baseball caps. All in the handbook as a no-no, but still have to send them to the AP's office to shave at 1 pm because teachers don't send them at the beginning of the day. I keep telling them to go to the school board or administration with a proper complaint and solution, but I have yet to hear of anyone to do so.

Boys with long hair.....No a big deal right now since they are allowing them to wear it pulled back, however a few years ago they would have had to cut it or sit in ISS until it was cut. Not bad kids, just prefer long hair. Missing classroom instruction just because they want long hair.

[NurseBeans, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

That it's OK for everyone else to get a lunch break, but I have to eat at my desk with vomit and blood and snot in my trash can and the bathroom in my clinic smelling of vomit and poo because all of the boys who aren't allowed to use the gang restrooms because they get in trouble (because there are no stall doors) have to come use mine, one at a time.

Everyone else gets to have those precious few childless minutes to enjoy a lunch. Why can't I?

Yes, this!! I was eating a grapefruit over my trashcan at 3:00 in the afternoon because I had no time to close and eat...I had another one of those moments where I questioned why my life has come to this...I eat fruit over a trashcan filled with nastiness while everyone else in the building gets to have leisurely half-hours in the lounge. Sigh.

[AdobeRN]

The Texas Immunization registry has updated their web site. Now along with username they want an organization code, well fine they provided that, but the password area was insane (maybe for me). Could not be a word from the dictionary or a slang word; could not be similar to any other password you have had before; along with capital letter and special character. I use tining mostly as a username - first three letters of my first name and first three letters of my maiden name - tried to use it as part of the password and NOOOOOOO rejected - it was considered a word in the dictionary and/or slang word. WTH? Are people using tining as a slang word (and what does it mean)? How am I supposed to remember a password that does not relate to my life????? My bank does not even require this much randomness. It took me 45 minutes to wrestle with this site to get an acceptable password (had to go to a password generator), and let me say the site is super lame and not user friendly like it used to be. And for security purposes it is written down on a post-it under my laptop if anyone wants it.

LOL....I just did this yesterday - I was having a rough day because I tried creating a password and kept getting the dictionary/slang message, finally after about 3 attempts of creatig a password I realized what I was supposed to do. Good Lord....I also have a postit with a crazy password that I will never remember taped inside my top desk drawer.

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

Parents with shared custody getting super angry when you call the wrong one to pick up the little vomiting snowflake. How the heck am I supposed to know that it's not your day?!?!?!?!

"...little vomiting snowflake." Your words are poetry and paint an exquisite picture; they gave me the first laugh of a trying day.

[tining, BSN, RN]

OMG - the boys that cannot go to the bathroom with others - EVERY.SINGLE.YEAR.

[AdobeRN]

I also have a couple of kids whose parents will not speak to each other so if little Johnny gets sick or hurt I have to call both sets of parents because God forbid they talk to each other. OR I have to ask Johnny which parent he goes home to after school on this particular day because that is the parent that I call.

I get this too...drives me insane, especially the ones I don't know about and end up getting an angry parent call the next day because of it.

[SchlNrsKrn]

Tining-you can have your computer remember the user name and password so that all you have to do is put in organization code!

[KKEGS, MSN, RN]

I get this too...drives me insane, especially the ones I don't know about and end up getting an angry parent call the next day because of it.

I also had an angry phone call from a mother who was not informed that her son had lice. Turns out this kid's grandparents are his legal guardians, not mom AND the phone number we have for mom is incorrect. To angry mom's credit when I explained that we don't have her correct number she calmed down and was actually quite pleasant.

[kidzcare]

Boys with earrings, non-shaven and baseball caps. All in the handbook as a no-no, but still have to send them to the AP's office to shave at 1 pm because teachers don't send them at the beginning of the day. I keep telling them to go to the school board or administration with a proper complaint and solution, but I have yet to hear of anyone to do so.

Boys with long hair.....No a big deal right now since they are allowing them to wear it pulled back, however a few years ago they would have had to cut it or sit in ISS until it was cut. Not bad kids, just prefer long hair. Missing classroom instruction just because they want long hair.

This sounds like a really strict policy. (Of course, I think all dress codes are stupidly strict, not to mention biased).

Do you work in a private or military school?

[djh123]

EVERY TIME I call a particular doctor I occasionally have to call, her voice mailbox is full.